Dave H

After completing a PhD in Pure Mathematics (Functional Analysis) from the University of British Columbia, I joined the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo in 1990, and for the next 6 or 7 years I developed much of the code for Maple’s arbitrary precision evaluation of special functions. In the late 1990’s I joined Maplesoft, where I continued my work on special functions, but also worked on Maple’s base numerics systems and the LinearAlgebra and Student packages. I have been the manager of the Mathematical Software Development Group since 2004.
In my not-very-copious spare time, I am one of the principals behind RegiStar, the world’s only fully automatic image registration (alignment) program for astrophotography.